MPs to get 10% pay rise

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LE

As per the recommendation of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority.

Backdated to 8 May, and designed to compensate for all the things like evening meals that they can't claim for anymore.

Always treat your kite like you treat your woman.
I say sir, do you mean take her home at the weekend to meet your mother?
No, I mean get inside her five times a day and take her to heaven and back. Woof!

LE

The RMT have sorted themselves a 2% + a bit rise. Everyone else seems to be on the wrong end of a 1% rise or a P45.

Always treat your kite like you treat your woman.
I say sir, do you mean take her home at the weekend to meet your mother?
No, I mean get inside her five times a day and take her to heaven and back. Woof!

LE

Well if our independent pay review body based on the price of cauliflowers, bacon and ready salted crisps recomemended 1%. It makes me wonder how inflation is different for the MP's 'Independent' pay review body.

LE

The government has today (12 March 2015) set out the pay awards for nearly a million public sector workers. These are in line with the policy that pay awards would be an average of up to 1% in 2015-16.

The following independent Pay Review Bodies (PRB) were asked to examine how an increase to base pay of an average of up to 1% could be applied across the relevant public sector workforces:

So they'll be getting £74,000 p.a now. Not bad for a three-day week spread over 24 weeks of the year, eh? And you can bet your arrse that they'll still find a way to claim all manner of things on top of that.

MIA

So they'll be getting £74,000 p.a now. Not bad for a three-day week spread over 24 weeks of the year, eh? And you can bet your arrse that they'll still find a way to claim all manner of things on top of that.

Well spotted Einstein, however on the original subject this has been going on for years , a excessive pay rise, much crocodile tears over accepting but somehow they manage to get brave,man up and accept it

Clanker

I love how recently it came to light that an MP was claiming £17k a year for accommodation benefits for work. He also owned out right an apartment only 5 minutes walk away from the Houses of Parliament but rented that out for extra income. How's that reasonable. As well as these huge pay rises?! What would we get back? One rule for another I guess!

LE

I love how recently it came to light that an MP was claiming £17k a year for accommodation benefits for work. He also owned out right an apartment only 5 minutes walk away from the Houses of Parliament but rented that out for extra income. How's that reasonable.

IDSTR anything in the JSP that says we can't claim overnight accommodation when on detached duty if we happen to have a rental property near the detached duty location: be a bit rough on the tennants if we had to kick them out now and again

Old-Salt

LE

After most elections? Almost yearly. Didnt parliament vote itself 10% last year?

First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews but I was not Jewish so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.
Martin Niemoeller

LE

War Hero

Pay peanuts, get monkeys. Frankly, for a job which involves a decent amount of legwork to actually get, weekly travel from home, a minimum of five years out of your normal career, significant hours when in London, and intrusion and public opprobrium at every turn, £67K is not a great deal. It is not remotely comparable to civilian packages for similar gigs. Public service is all very well, but it's the kind of thing you take a 20% pay cut to do. Not a 60% pay cut.

We can bleat about 1% rises for MPs all we like, but paying people less than the going rate has a direct impact on who we get, and what they do while they’re in office. So if we want to continue attracting a disproportionate number of the independently wealthy who can afford the hit, or the council equality and diversity officer for whom an MP’s salary is a considerable step up, and we want them to continue going after as many directorships, Have I Got News For You slots, and consulting engagements as they can, then let’s crack on with the current system. If we want the successful entrepreneur, financier, business owner or barrister, who’s going to focus 100% on their constituents’ business because they’re paid the market rate, then we’ll have to pay the market rate.

I reckon a ‘Reservist Allowance’ system is the way ahead. Everyone gets the basic salary of £75K odd, but if Morgan Stanley paid you £1M a year, that’s what you get in Parliament. That’s what the market decided you were worth, so that’s what we should pay if UK plc wants to engage your services.

"The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle"; Sun Tzu, general, philosopher, strategist

"My having the use of a solitary crapper may have helped me make a better decision and saved a few people's lives"; John G, major, raconteur, chilled out entertainer

LE

It's also easy to say when you're already independently wealthy and don't really need paying at all.
It's a bit different for those from 'the real world' for whom it is their sole income. £74k p.a., living in London and constituency, long hours, with the media delving into every aspect of your - and your family's - current and past life, and it effectively ending any other career you may have is hardly the stuff of dreams.
A half decent plumber earns that, for far less.

I love how recently it came to light that an MP was claiming £17k a year for accommodation benefits for work. He also owned out right an apartment only 5 minutes walk away from the Houses of Parliament but rented that out for extra income. How's that reasonable. As well as these huge pay rises?! What would we get back? One rule for another I guess!